Narloch Piano Studio

In C(hristmas)
2019-12-13 21:00 - 22:30 (America/Chicago) | Narloch Piano Studio, 4636 N Francisco Ave, Chicago, Illinois, 60625, United States
Have you always been the only one celebrating minimalism during the holiday season? Come meet your friends! We are going to play the classic “In C” but with a Christmas twist by the one and only Carrie Freiley (Terry Riley arr. Carrie Frey)! There will be sheet music provided, warm drinks, and cookies! Bring more cookies if you want or just eat them.
This is not really a concert, it’s a chance to play this piece all together. Feel free to come late or leave early!
Late start for after gig availability!

Holiday Recital
2019-12-15 15:00 - 17:30 (America/Chicago) | Ravenswood Fellowship United Methodist Church, 4511 N. Hermitage Ave., Chicago, IL, 60640, United States
Students of Narloch Piano Studio perform.

Katrina Sudman and Vincent Catalano Piano Duo
2019-12-20 20:00 - 21:30 (America/Chicago) | Narloch Piano Studio, 4636 N Francisco Ave, Chicago, Illinois, 60625, United States
Katrina Sudman and Vincent Catalano perform a four-hand piano program:
Franz Schubert: Sonata in C Major for Piano Four-Hands, D.812 “Grand Duo”
Cesar Franck: Sonata in A Major for Violin and Piano (Transcribed for Piano-Four Hands by Alfred Cortot)
Italian pianist Vincent Catalano and American pianist Katrina Sudman met in Rome and quickly formed a piano duo. They have both performed at venues across Italy and the United States. They have each won titles in piano competitions including the 8th Concorso Nazionale di Cittá S.Angelo (Catalano: Pescara, Italy) and the International Piano Competition at the Festival of the Gulf (Sudman: Salerno, Italy). Sudman and Catalano both continue their studies with Carlo Maria Dominici in Rome, who was a student of Vladimir Horowitz and Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli.

Matthew Coley and Clare Longendyke
2020-02-08 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | Narloch Piano Studio, 4636 N Francisco Ave, Chicago, Illinois, 60625, United States
“Tides and Riptides Concerto for Marimba” by Bjorn Berkhout
Hungarian Dances Nos 1-5 by J. Brahms, performed on cimbalom with piano
Matthew Coley is an internationally acclaimed performer and the founding executive/artistic director of Heartland Marimba (HM). Performing on marimba, percussion, hammered dulcimer/cimbalom, and glass, Matthew travels regularly bringing the beauty of the marimba’s singing wood and the diverse timbre of other percussion and dulcimers to many audiences. About his dulcimer performing it has been written that “Coley rips across the strings of the hammered dulcimer with abandon bordering on delirium!” (Linda Shapiro, Chicago Press Review). Matthew has performed in over 35 US states, 10 countries, and as a soloist with ensembles/organizations throughout the US and abroad including Clocks in Motion Percussion, Cedar Valley Chamber Music Festival, University of Denver Percussion Ensemble, Sudar Percussion of Croatia, San Francisco Sinfonietta, Kurpfalzisches Kammerorchester Mannheim, and Moldavian Philharmonic and Teleradio Symphony Orchestras. Visit www.hearMatthewColey.com
Hailed a “superlative pianist,” (Journal of the IAWM), Clare Longendyke is a passionate soloist and chamber musician recognized for her colorful musicality, technical fluency, and ability to interpret repertoires across the musical spectrum. Clare made her orchestral debut in 2012 performing Bartók’s 3rd Piano Concerto. Clare has been featured in the Fazioli Series (Los Angeles), the Schubert Club of Minnesota’s Courtroom Concert Series, the Boston MFA’s SoundBites Series, and on Performance Today. Last season, Clare performed 50 concerts across the United States and in Europe, including two performances of Joan Tower’s Piano Concerto and solo recital performances in Paris, Italy, Minnesota, Maine, San Francisco, and Boston. This season’s highlights include recitals in Boston, Maine, Indianapolis, and a performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 with the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra of Minnesota. Clare holds degrees from the Boston University College of Fine Arts, the École Normale de Musique in Paris, and the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Visit www.clarelongendyke.com

Axiom Brass
2020-02-09 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | Narloch Piano Studio, 4636 N Francisco Ave, Chicago, Illinois, 60625, United States
Axiom Brass performs music by Monteverdi, Piazzolla, Calvert, and Faleris.
Donation is tax-deductible and supports musical education programming in Chicago. Axiom Brass is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a nonproﬁt arts service organization. Contributions for the charitable purposes of Axiom Brass must be made payable to Fractured Atlas only and are taxdeductible to the extent permitted by law.

Fuse Quartet
2020-02-15 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | Narloch Piano Studio, 4636 N Francisco Ave, Chicago, Illinois, 60625, United States
Fuse Quartet
Julian Velasco – soprano saxophone
Joseph Connor – alto saxophone
Christopher Forbes – tenor saxophone
David Schreck – baritone saxophone
Music by J.S. Bach, Edvard Grieg, William Albright, Fuminori Tanada, Joel Love, and Viet Cuong.
Bio:
Founded upon a shared passion for chamber music, collaboration, and education, Fuse Quartet is a nationally recognized group of musicians who met at Northwestern University. In addition to concerts of both new and old music for saxophone quartet, Fuse has collaborated with Grammy-winning artists such as Jennifer Higdon and Donald Nally to create dynamic multi-dimensional performances. Fuse is regularly engaged in performances in Evanston and the greater Chicago community.

Adult Student Recital
2020-03-06 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | Narloch Piano Studio, 4636 N Francisco Ave, Chicago, Illinois, 60625, United States
Adult students from Narloch Piano Studio perform.

Spring Recital
2020-03-22 14:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago) | Narloch Piano Studio, 4636 N Francisco Ave, Chicago, Illinois, 60625, United States
Students from Narloch Piano Studio perform.

CANCELLED - Morton Feldman: Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello
2020-04-24 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | PianoForte, 1335 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL, 60619, United States
This concert date is cancelled due to the coronavirus (COVID-19). We hope to perform this at the same venue at a later date. Stay well!
Morton Feldman: Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello (1987)
Myra Hinrichs, violin; Nicholas Jeffery, viola; Kelly Quesada, cello; Christopher Narloch, piano

LIVE STREAM: Narloch Plays Glass IV
2020-05-22 20:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | https://www.pscp.tv/narlochpiano/, United States
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Christopher Narloch performs the iconic Philip Glass Solo Piano album in its entirety. This will be the final concert of the annual ‘Narloch Plays Glass’ series.
Metamorphosis One
Metamorphosis Two
Metamorphosis Three
Metamorphosis Four
Metamorphosis Five
Mad Rush
Wichita Vortex Sutra

Narloch Plays Ustvolskaya
2020-10-23 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | IL
Christopher Narloch performs the complete piano sonatas of Galina Ustvolskaya (1919-2006).
Suggested donation: $10
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Live stream only:
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Sonata No. 1 (1947)
Sonata No. 2 (1949)
Sonata No .3 (1952)
Sonata No. 4 (1957)
Sonata No. 5 (1986)
Sonata No. 6 (1988)

Duo Forzando
2021-05-14 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Narloch Piano Studio, 4636 N Francisco Ave, Chicago, Illinois, 60625, United States
This is a virtual live-stream only event.
Duo Forzando: is:
Henry Zheng, violin
Michael Finlay, piano
Program:
Poulenc – Sonata for Violin and Piano
Philip Glass – Sonata for Violin and Piano
William Bolcom – Graceful Ghost Rag
Friday, May 14, 7:00pm CST
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlKiMoFvXVc
Suggested donation – $20
Venmo @narlochpiano
Proceeds will go to both the performing artists and the piano studio.
Thank you!

Bowery Trio
2021-10-24 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Narloch Piano Studio, 4636 N Francisco Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
The Cosmopolite Music Project: Newly commissioned Finnish Music by Joel Jarventausta, Stephen Webb, and Sauli Zinovjev.
Allison Wang, piano; Mark Allen Jr., clarinet; Esther Seitz, cello
Mask, vaccination card, and RSVP required.
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This event will be streamed live here:
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Jonathan Hannau and Kyle Gregory Price
2021-11-20 20:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | Narloch Piano Studio, 4636 N Francisco Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
An evening of new piano music and songs from Jonathan Hannau and Kyle Gregory Price
Masks, vax cards, and RSVP to narlochpiano@yahoo.com required.
To stream online go to facebook.com/narlochpianostudio
Suggested donation: $10 Venmo @narlochpiano

The _____ Experiment and Magnus Villaneuva
2022-03-18 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | Narloch Piano Studio, 4636 N Francisco Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
The _____ Experiment (The Blank Experiment) teams up with pianist Magnus Villaneuva to perform a concert of new music by Jeffrey Agrell, Earle Brown, Unsuk Chin, Xenia St. Charles Gilbert, Adam Kennaugh, Gyorgy Ligeti, Mayke Nas, Ian Wiese, and two world premieres by Shi-An Costello.
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Magnus Villanueva, piano
The _____ Experiment
Ava Wirth, oboe
Michelle Cusick, clarinet
Andrew Hosler, saxophone
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Program
Jeffrey Agrell: Blues for D.D. , for solo oboe
Earle Brown: Nov. ’52 (1952), for solo Bb clarinet
Adam Kennaugh: From Sand (2017), for solo tenor saxophone
Gyorgy Ligeti: selections from Etudes pour piano (1985-2001)
Unsuk Chin: “Toccata” from Piano Etudes (1995-2003)
Shi-An Costello: Reappearance (2021), for solo piano (wp)
Ian Wiese: Twin Colors, for right and left hand, for solo piano
Ian Wiese: Twin Colors, for two wind players
Mayke Nas: Entrez! (2002), for soprano sax, oboe, and Bb clarinet
Shi-An Costello: Three Oblong Studies (2022), for oboe, Bb clarinet and tenor saxophone (wp)
Earle Brown: Four Systems (1954), for oboe, Bb clarinet, saxophone and piano
Xenia St. Charles Gilbert: The Score is $600, for oboe, Bb clarinet, saxophone and piano
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About the performers
Chicago native MAGNUS VILLANUEVA has performed all over North America, Europe, and Asia from notable concert halls and radio stations to hospitals and nursing homes. His recent festival appearances include solo and chamber music performances at the Cortona Sessions, Atlantic Music Festival, Orford Music Festival, Gijón International Piano Festival, and Festival Pablo Casals de Prades. Passionate about chamber music and collaboration, he has worked with members of the Guarneri, Spektral, JACK, and Brentano quartets, International Contemporary Ensemble, and Alarm Will Sound.
Magnus earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the Peabody Conservatory under the tutelage of Marian Hahn. Previously, he studied with Emilio del Rosario and Ralph Neiweem at the Music Institute of Chicago. An enthusiastic pedagogue, he currently serves on the faculty of Great Neck Music Conservatory on Long Island, New York and has previously been on the faculty of the Gasse School of Music and Chicago Music Lessons. In addition to teaching, he is a dedicated ballet pianist and has worked for New York City’s Ballet Arts and Chicago’s Hyde Park School of Dance.
THE _____ EXPERIMENT (pronounced The “Blank” Experiment) is an up and coming flexible instrumentation ensemble based in the Midwest. With over 30 commissions, this group is committed to expanding the repertoire for mixed chamber ensembles. Their mission is to commission music by a variety of composers in order to create high quality, but audibly approachable new music by performing outreach concerts for a variety of audiences in various locations. . This ensemble was originally founded in 2017 by Andrew Hosler (saxophones), Michelle Cusick (clarinets), and Natalie Pate (harp). The ____ Experiment quickly began collaborating with composers around the United States to create works for this new instrumentation.
Their first recital tour featured performances at Michigan State University and Bowling Green State University, following that they had additional performances at the Flint Institute of Music and the University of Michigan both featuring mostly newly composed works. In the summer of 2018, The _____ Experiment recorded their first album, Conversations, with Sly Pup Production and went on to release the album in March 2020. This album featured seven world premiere recordings featuring composers from multiple states, including: Michigan, Florida, Ohio, and Arizona.
In July of 2020 The ____ Experiment expanded to include oboist, Ava Wirth. Throughout the rest of the year, the ensemble worked to record pieces that were compatible with socially distanced settings. One of these works was the first composer collaboration with the new instrumentation: Tyler Mazone’s Mini Personalities for Oboe, Bb Clarinet, and Tenor Saxophone. They also started a series of virtual projects aimed at cross disciplinary collaboration entitled Visual Soundscapes. In the Spring of 2021, the ensemble continued to expand to include Maya Grossman on Basson. During this time, The _____ Experiment was heading a commission for composer Josh Trentadue. In May of 2021, the newest member was added to the ensemble, harpist Danielle Kuntz.
In August of 2021, the entire ensemble met in person, the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic began. During this meeting, The _____ Experiment rehearsed and recorded new works that were released during the fall of 2021. Six of these works were released on the October recital, “Kadupal”. This recital had three world premieres, including the commission with Josh Trentadue, Meditation and Hymn to Nature.
The members of The _____ Experiment are located in Ann Arbor, MI, Cleveland, OH, Chicago, IL, Wichita, KS, and San Francisco, CA. When not rehearsing, the members of this ensemble enjoy mountain biking, taking care of their pets and plants, and laughing at cheesy jokes about musicians.

Daniel Lewis and Isabella Andries
2022-04-08 20:00 - 22:00 UTC | Narloch Piano Studio, 4636 N Francisco Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
Daniel T Lewis, percussion, and Isabella Andries, piano, present back-to-back solo performances “Distance, Touch, Void” and “Digital Disquiet.”

Masks required, and RSVP required at the link here:
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Catch the livestream here:
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About the program:
– Distance, Touch, Void –
“The performance is an introverted look at bleak emotions. Each piece seems to grapple with a sense of losing time, losing place, losing human connection, or losing self. Each seems to be some kind of private ceremony or prayer, an appeal to a humanistic, or sometimes nihilistic, spirituality. Together the pieces are an outward expression of feelings left mostly internalized during the isolation of the pandemic. The music is intensely intimate, but also impersonal, dissociated. It searches for meaning and longs for warmth, touch, and connection.” – Daniel T. Lewis

– Digital Disquiet –
“Sebastian Zel’s Fever Dream is an expression of personal experience with insomnia and the liminal space between consciousness and dreaming. Musically, it is an icy and winding journey that strikes a delicate balance between harmonic resolution and dissonance. The ambiguous haze the listener is left in establishes a fitting backdrop for the chilling opening of Stephen Montague’s Tongues of Fire, which builds from a low rumble to a picture of destruction of cosmic proportions. The work was inspired by Spanish Civil War poet Miguel Hernandez’s poem Mouth of Anger, thereby reflecting a gruesome reality that transcends internal turmoil.” – Isabella Andries

Summer Recital
2022-07-24 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago) | Ravenswood Manor Park, Chicago, IL, United States
Students of Narloch Piano Studio perform in the annual Ravenswood Manor Park Summer Recital.

Krankwerk: Crossing Beyond
2022-07-30 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | Narloch Piano Studio, 4636 N Francisco Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
Krankwerk is:
Mason Spencer, viola
Adrian Golay, cello
Josh Lambert, bass
$10 suggested donation
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Masks Required
RSVP Required at
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Program:
Wolfgang Rihm: Verzeichnung-Studie (1986)
Paul Wiancko: American Haiku (2014 rev. 2019)
Marc Sabat: Jean-Philippe Rameau (2012)
Rebecca Clarke: Two Pieces for Viola and Cello
(1916)
Viktor Suslin: Grenzübertritt – Crossing Beyond
(1990)

Double Bass Recital: Sara Neilson & Jason Roebke
2022-08-20 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | Narloch Piano Studio, 4636 N Francisco Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
Sara Neilson and Jason Roebke perform music for double bass.
100% of proceeds go to the Chicago Abortion Fund.
Masks Required
RSVP Required at this link:
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Streaming info TBA
Program includes:
Sonia Ray – Ondas
J. S. Bach – 2nd suite
Amy Beach – Romance
Sarian Sankoh – everythingfeelsthesame

Narloch Plays Chopin
2022-09-30 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | Narloch Piano Studio, 4636 N Francisco Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
Christopher Narloch performs the early Mazurkas of Frédéric Chopin.
Masks Required.
RSVP Required to narlochpiano@yahoo.com
Suggested Donation: $10
Cash at venue or Venmo @narlochpiano
Program:
Four Mazurkas, Op. 6 (1830)
Five Mazurkas, Op. 7 (1830/31)
Four Mazurkas, Op. 17 (1832/33)
Four Mazurkas, Op. 24 (1834/35)
Four Mazurkas, Op. 30 (1836/37)
Four Mazurkas, Op. 33 (1837/38)

The_____Experiment
2022-10-16 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | Narloch Piano Studio, 4636 N Francisco Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
Calling all Chicago (and beyond) friends! Are you ready to see The_____Experiment in person?
Come join us at Narloch Piano Studio on October 16, 7;30pm CDT for an exciting evening of music!
Featuring compositions from:
Everette Minchew
Emily Joy Sullivan
Pauline Oliveros
Josh Trentadue
Aaron Lett
Robert Lemay
Evan Ware – Composer
Nick Zoulek
Stacy Garrop
Danny Buckley
Ben Zucker
In person attendance requires Masks and RVSP and space is limited. Tickets are free, but $10 donation recommended.
For those who cannot attend live (i.e. our non-Chicago friends), this concert will be livestreamed on the Narloch Piano Studio Facebook page.
We hope to see you there, either in person or virtually!

Narloch Plays Chopin - The Late Mazurkas
2022-12-09 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | Narloch Piano Studio, 4636 N Francisco Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
Christopher Narloch performs the late Mazurkas of Frédéric Chopin.
Masks Required.
RSVP Required to narlochpiano@yahoo.com
Suggested Donation: $10
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Program:
Four Mazurkas, Op. 41 (1838/39)
Three Mazurkas, Op. 50 (1841/42)
Three Mazurkas, Op. 56 (1843)
Three Mazurkas, Op. 59 (1845)
Three Mazurkas, Op. 63 (1846)

Shustova & Jacobs Masterclass and Concert
2023-01-15 11:30 - 14:00 (America/Chicago) | Narloch Piano Studio, 4636 N Francisco Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
11:30am: Piano Masterclass given by Dr. Shustova and Mx. Christopher Narloch
1:00pm: Dr. Tatiana Shustova (piano) and Dr. Aaron Jacobs (violin) perform
Masks and RSVP Required.
RSVP here:
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Program:
J.S. Bach – Prelude from WTK II in G sharp minor
S. Rachmaninoff – Etudes Tableaux Op. 33 No. 8 in G Minor and Op. 39 No. 1 in C Minor
S. Prokofiev – selections from ” Romeo and Juliette”
Mendelssohn – Etude in B flat minor
With Aaron Jacobs, violin:
Two Mazurkas, Op. 19 – Henryk Wieniawski (1835–1880)
I. Dudziarz
II. Obertass
La Gitana – F. Kreisler
Nocturne from “String Poetic” – Jennifer Higdon (b. 1962)
Sonata for Violin and Piano (1961) – H. Leslie Adams (b. 1932)
II. Lento
Dr. Tatiana Shustova Biography:
Dr. Tatiana Shustova was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, where she studied at the Rimsky-Korsakov Music School and the Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory. She also participated in piano and chamber music master classes at the Music Hochschule in Leipzig, Germany, in collaboration with New York’s Juilliard School.
Tatiana completed the Artist’s Certificate Program and a Master’s degree in piano performance at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. She studied with Maxim Mogilevsky and Robert Satterlee and won first prize in the 40th annual Concerto Competition.
In 2008, she was awarded a fellowship to enter the doctoral program in piano performance at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She completed the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Piano Performance under the direction Dr. Ian Hobson in spring 2013.
Tatiana has appeared at festivals in the United States such as the Interlochen Summer Arts Camp, Illinois Summer Youth Music, the Bowling Green Music Institute, and the Toradze Piano Institute. In Europe: the Ionian Summer Music academy, Corfu, Greece; Les Orres International summer academy, Embrun, France; Suomussalmi Music Festival, Suomussalmi, Finland; and Musica Atri, Atri and Scuola Italia, Urbania, Italy. Tatiana has received numerous awards in solo and chamber music competitions in Italy and Russia and has played many concerts in Europe. At the competition Musica Atri (2004), she received 1st place along with an invitation to play concerts and the opportunity to participate in master classes with Eugenie Mogilevsky, professor at the Brussels Conservatory.
During the summer of 2010, Tatiana was appointed as a vocal coach at the Scuola Italia program (Urbania, Italy). During the same year, Tatiana and her husband Aaron Jacobs (violin) received second prize at the international music competition Premio Alberto Gori. In October 2011, Tatiana and Aaron where invited to perform works by Liszt in the Liszt-Garrison Festival and Competition and won an award for their performance of “String Poetic” by Jennifer Higdon.In November 2012 Tatiana received First Place in the American Protege International Romantic Music Competition and had her Carnegie Weill Recital Hall Debut. In March 2013 Tatiana had a solo recital at the Krannert Center for the Arts at Urbana, Illinois for annual 21st century piano commission award.
Tatiana is currently an adjunct faculty member at Millikin University School of Music, where she is collaborative pianist and piano class professor, as well as piano, chamber music, theory and musicianship instructor for the Illinois String Academy and Piano Laboratory Program at UIUC. Her recent chamber music collaborations includes Illinois Arts Trio performances with Prof. Amy Catron (cello) and her husband Prof. Aaron Jacobs (violin) and Illinois tour with flute artist from Finland Sami Junnonen. In addition, she mentors an independent piano studio in Savoy, Illinois where she resides with her husband and two sons, and is Artistic Director of the Chambana Music Competition, which recently received Urbana Arts Grant.
Dr. Aaron Jacobs Biography:
Dr. Aaron Jacobs enjoys a multifaceted career as a teacher, performing artist, ensemble director, and clinician. His teaching experience includes public school, community, pre-college, and university level studio and classroom teaching. His performance experience includes extensive work as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral musician. Additionally, he has an extensive background in program building, curriculum design, pre-service and professional teacher education, administration, and leadership.
For over 20 years, Aaron has taught at universities, academies, music schools, and summer institutes throughout Ohio, Maine, Wisconsin, and Illinois. At the collegiate level, he taught applied violin, string pedagogy, and string methods courses as a faculty member at Millikin University and Illinois State University, and as a graduate assistant at Northwestern University, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. For ten years, Aaron worked at the University of Illinois, where he collaborated with a team of faculty and graduate students to establish the Pre-College Chamber Music Program in 2011 and personally founded the Illinois String Academy in 2015. There, he maintained a studio of roughly 25–30 violin and viola students annually, mentored a staff of undergraduate, graduate, and post-doctoral instructors, provided his staff with pedagogical training on a weekly basis, taught a wide range of violin and viola group classes, coached pre-college chamber music, directed two chamber orchestras, and administered all the Academy’s offerings. Also in 2015, he created a violin program for Danville, IL school district 118, which offered violin instruction to nearly 200 first and second grade students at two elementary schools in Danville, IL. Aaron continues to instruct young violinists and violists privately, and his students consistently win top honors and performance awards each year, including solo concerto performances with orchestras as well as admission and scholarship offers to prestigious collegiate music institutions.
As an active chamber and solo recitalist, Aaron has performed throughout the United States and Europe. Collaborations with his wife and duo partner—pianist, Tatiana Shustova—have been particularly rewarding. Since 2005, performances have taken the Jacobs-Shustova Duo to Italy, Russia, and several U.S. states, and they have earned awards at two international competitions. Notable chamber music collaborations for competitions and tours have included the Sariana Trio (violin, saxophone, and piano), Chambana Arts Trio (violin, cello, and piano), and the Illinois Arts Trio (violin, cello, and piano). Aaron has worked closely with composers Stacy Garrop, Missy Mazzoli, and Bright Sheng in the performances of their works. His extensive work as a professional orchestral musician has included numerous appointments as concertmaster, principal second violin, or principal viola, and he has been a featured soloist with chamber orchestras at Bowling Green State University and the University of Illinois, the Danville Illinois Symphony Orchestra, Jacksonville Illinois Symphony Orchestra, and the Illinois State University Symphony Orchestra.
As a clinician, Aaron has served as Co-Director and faculty member of the Paul Rolland String Pedagogy (PRSP) Workshop for professional musicians and teachers. In this role, he has become a resource to string teachers throughout the United States and on six continents. In 2017, he presented a research poster session at the American String Teachers Association National Conference; more recently, he has presented clinical sessions at the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic in 2019 and the Illinois Music Educators Conference in 2020 and 2022. He has been invited to lead master classes and clinics at collegiate institutions in Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio, and is a certified Mentor for string teachers enrolled in the certification program of the PRSP Society, for which he is also a member of the Board of Directors. In 2022, Aaron designed a PRSP course for ISU that will grant Level 1 Endorsement towards certification to the string majors enrolled and will also be involved as an instructor for additional PRSP certification events throughout the summer.
Aaron is particularly grateful to his many teachers and mentors over the years. His primary violin instructors and professors include (in chronological order) Kay Harbaugh, Anna Bittar Weller, William Terwilliger, Movses Pogossian, Dr. Penny Thompson Kruse, Vasile Beluska, Bernard Zinck, Gerardo Ribeiro, Sherban Lupu, Sibbi Bernhardsson, and Megan Freivogel. Viola professors include Csaba Erdélyi and Charlie Pickler. String education and pedagogy mentors include Dr. Elaine Colprit, Darcy Drexler, Stacia Spencer, Dr. James Kjelland, Mimi Zweig, Sherry Sinift, Dr. Gerald Fischbach, and Joanne May. Orchestral studies with Blair Milton and Charlie Pickler. Additional violin performance studies (alphabetically) with Marjorie Bagley, Yehonatan Berick, Jacques Israelievitch, Ilya Kaler, Kurt Sassmannshaus, Almita Vamos, Roland Vamos, Won-Bin Yim, and Mimi Zweig. Master class performances for Alla Aranovskaya, Dmitri Berlinsky, Lawrence Dutton, Ralph Evans, Jacques Israelievitch, Sherri Kloss, Annette Barbara Vogel, Jasper Wood, the Jupiter Quartet, Parker Quartet, Won-Bin Yim, and Mimi Zweig. And chamber music studies with the Audubon Quartet, Alan Bodman, Alan Chan, Lawrence Dutton, Csaba Erdélyi, the Fine Arts Quartet, James Giles, Ian Hobson, the Jupiter Quartet, Stefan Kartman, Kevin Lawrence, Stefan Milenkovich, the Pacifica Quartet, Max Raimie, Debra Richtmeyer, Alan Smith, and Almita Vamos.

Narloch Plays Hindemith
2023-04-23 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Chicago) | Minnekirken, 2614 N. Kedzie Ave., Chicago, IL, 60647, United States
Christopher Narloch performs the three Piano Sonatas by Paul Hindemith (1895-1963).
Program:
Piano Sonata No. 1 (1936)
Piano Sonata No. 2 (1936)
Piano Sonata No. 3 (1936)
Free and open to the public. Donations welcome to the Logan Square Mutual Aid.

Michael Finlay, piano
2023-05-12 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | Narloch Piano Studio, 4636 N Francisco Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
Michael Finlay performs solo piano music.
Masks required and RSVP required here:
https://forms.gle/wij4a6VnJYS934SJ8
Suggested donation: $10
Program:
Beethoven sonata in D Major Op. 10 No. 3
Chopin Barcarolle op. 60
Prokofiev sonata No.4 in c minor Op. 29
Ravel Gaspard de la nuit

Mostly New
2023-07-15 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | Narloch Piano Studio, 4636 N Francisco Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
Zaira Castillo, piano; Amanda Beaune, violin; and Evan Kopca, clarinet perform works by Somei Satoh, Ben Zucker, Kenji Bunch, Marcos Balter, and Aram Khachaturian.
Masks Required, and RSVP Required here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/16EdBRWL-jm5MLdOFISfJSE8SIw4nlHMgraubthC9Kcc

Summer Recital
2023-07-16 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Chicago) | Ravenswood Manor Park, Chicago, IL, United States
Students from Narloch Piano Studio perform outside in the park!

Wander Ensemble
2023-08-20 14:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago) | Narloch Piano Studio, 4636 N Francisco Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
Join us for an afternoon of chamber music exploring the theme of identity, featuring Dvořák’s “American” quartet, Won-ju Lee’s sonata, Ihwau, and Piazzola’s Oblivion, arranged for piano trio.
There will be two performances, one at 2:00pm and again at 4:00pm.
RSVP required, masks required
Suggested donation $20
RSVP at: rqnavarro917 @ gmail . com

Carolyn Enger - Resonating Earth
2023-11-04 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Narloch Piano Studio, 4636 N Francisco Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
Carolyn Enger returns to Narloch Piano studio for a multi-media video/audio/acoustic performance of piano pieces by a variety of both traditional and modern composers alike.
Masking required. RSVP Required here:
https://forms.gle/xjL7y9FU83M9ZeKv6

Holiday Recital
2023-12-17 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago) | Luther Memorial Church, 2500 W Wilson Ave, Chicago, 60625, United States
